From what I understand, the previous BOD system was removed because people were using macros to obtain BODs. From my experience, the current clock on BODs is about 6 hours. Previously it was 2 hrs and you could easily get them on all your alts and combine them in your BOD book.

There are several problems with the BOD system even as it was. You need massive amounts of BODs before you start getting any chance at all of a high end LBOD. I have over 2k of most types of small BODs and it has taken me 3 months of steady gathering with 2 accounts to do that. And yet, except for fletching and carpentry have not gotten more than about 5 of any non-basic LBOD filled. Because of the non-OSI resource types, you need many more BODs than in OSI before you start getting good sets. And, in OSI, you can immediately get another BOD by filling in a crappy one and turning it in. So, eventually you can get good ones quickly. As you can imagine, that was frustrating for me as I spend large amounts of time trying to get enough to fill LBODs. I don't see much chance of getting any now.

So, in the first place (although I was not doing it) I see no problem with people getting BODs with bots because even then it would take months to get any decent sets. I now need to get all of my alts a no-reg suit and runes to Luna and the Brit fletcher. Even then, I will only be getting about 1/4 as many BODs per day as before.

If the current system is kept in place, I would offer several solutions:

1) Implement the OSI system of offering a BOD if one is turned in.
2) Make picking up BODs much more frequent - every 1 or 2 hours.
3) Offering BODs for sale on a stone - either in bulk or by choice
4) Have for sale or through quest (tokens or ED) BOD spawners (1 of each type) that would spawn a bag of random BODs once per day - limit one of each type per account.
5) Have a BOD bag that would give you a random BOD for any 2 that you place in the bag.

Thanks for your consideration.
Crawdad

Or just bring back the regular crafted bod books so that we cant start selling them without too much trouble, i beleive this is the main reason people aren't selling them!

It appears I was in error on one count. It is only the tailoring and smithy bods that are on a 6 hour clock.

I personally would love to see the return of the random bod bags that use to be sold on the gold stone.

While the normal BOD books made a BOD vendor easy, it would also not be difficult for anyone to set up vendors at their shop for BOD's - one for each type and sorted in bags for each type of resource. You would be able to have over 700 of them for sale that way.

Problem with just using the "player VENDOR" idea and not implementing a fix, is you run the risk of an established player where gold is no object buying out all the BODs that moment. Where when you think of it why wouldn't they? To a few players on this shard, 1 mil, 5 mil, 20mil, nothing but pockect change. Even thought they disabled the breeding, and removed the over powered pets, they did not remove the gold that was made through the transaction of said pets. There is alot of gold on the shard atm.

There were no pets removed when they took the breeding system out.  Just fyi. 

There were no pets removed when they took the breeding system out.  Just fyi. 

There is a who topic about the pets and what/how they were fixed.


Dante went over all the accounts and fixed them. Made them require 2 slots and such. You can find the topic under General Imprisoned ice hounds. Its a sticky.

I don't understand your point about selling bod's on a regular vendor rather than with a bod book. I don't see any difference. The only thing that an experienced player would do is know which bod's to buy and which were not worth even filling. They would buy them whether they were in a book for sale or in a bag.

The book allows you to sort over the bods.  Where if they were in a bag or on a vendor you have to go over every single one. Not only that issue. But the size would only allow so many on a vendor. Much like Powerscrolls.  You can't stack them on top of eachother. Makes it to hard to see you have to spread them out.


And a lot of times. If they are over stacked and its a pain to check each one I will pass that vendor up. Its to much time.

I understand all those issues. What I don't understand was why there was a question of why you should do it because old players would buy them all.